DrMender

At the sight of the Guard entering the previously closed and shutdown room, while perusing the opened data files at the station he had been using had caused him to curse out silently under his breathe. He frowned in annoyance at the guards notification on a radio that he planned to check out the room, which caused the Doctor to alter the plan on knocking him out and instead planning to silence him permanently by slashing his vocal cords attempting to silently rise up behind him from behind the table to use his ripper claws on his mechanical hand.

At the sight of the research data for the Araska cloning and human genome program involving engrams or AI programs brought a frown to his face, while he muttered, "fucking corpos playing as gods....." as he turned away from the data station looking for a drive or way to copy the data. Hearing Camila's suggestion about sneaking up on a couple of scientists and trying on a disguise to get past them, he chuckled quietly and whispered, "Not a bad plan though but they always seem to travel in groups of three or more...." In an attempt to prevent Camila from having a meltdown and slipping back into the dream world, he would silently curse at the jingling of keys followed by the heavy thud of boots from a guard approaching the door. He frowned pushing Camila out of sight behind a table and attempted to hide out of sight from the guard with the intention of stealing of identification card after knocking him out or killing him.

Mercy scowled at the floating child in the tube and the identical freshly autopsied child on the table. He listened at the door for coast to be clear to continue on to find the flower and get out of the medical labs. He periodically glanced around the empty lab and at the workstation debating about looking for any notes.

At Camilla’s response to the psychosis treatment working for her without any side effects and her seemingly returning back to normal, he sighed at the oversimplified explanation from her but nodded in response. He stated quietly, “Thats about the basics that happened and were at the elevator to the lab with the flower” as he looked around for the hatch or access into the secret lab from the elevator shaft on top of the elevator that they current stood on top of. As he looked around for the hatch, he would wait for the sound of those inside leaving the elevator before attempting to enter the elevator and listening to there conversation for any information that might help.

As the duo had stopped on a ledge and hearing the strain in Camila’s voice, Mercy dug through his med pouch looking for anything that might be helpful. He smiles brightly at a small vial labeled, “Solution P” and glances over at his companion blinking in confusion at the strange detaching noise. Mercy glanced up seeing an elevator rapidly descending in the elevator shaft towards them. He mentally cursed out loud at his luck, “bloody hell!” and quickly grabbed onto Camila’s injecting a dose of the cyber-psychosis treatment into her neck shouting, “Sorry no time to be gentle! Get ready to jump!” Once the elevator had passed by them, he prepared to jump and if needed carry Camila with him onto the top of the elevator to gain access to the secret lab.

He shakes his head at the mention of being primarily saka drones and replies, “honestly don’t know but I do know the corpos use it and I am not sure if it happens naturally from too much chrome or a hacker” as he watches the last drone explode. He gives a small smile and replies in a sad tone, “There are meds to combat the effect but from my experience so far. I don’t know of a cure but I’ve got some contacts that might be able help and I might have something back at the clinic I think…” as he tries to remember if he has anything to help on him or at the clinic.

Mercy curses at the buzzing sound echoing down the shaft from above them as he replies, “I only planned on seeing what they had and burning it or only taking what was needed since its tied to a damn bio-weapon” as he glares up at the saka drones. He scowls taking a quick shot at one of the drones and replies, “Sorry but I’ve seen enough cyber-psychosis victims come in and you displayed all the medical signs for it… plus saka hackers are notorious for using it” before he cackles at the mini-explosion from one of the drones burning up into worthless scrap.

He shook his head at the mention of Kara and states quietly, “Considering we lost one person and should hopefully have this plant… I might agree” as he watches her pull out the grappling hook. He rubs the back of his neck and clicks his teeth soft replying,” yeah based on that statement, I’d say you got hit with a dose of cyber-psychosis from a hacker and depending on how your body handles the three doses at minimum about a half hour to hour.” He grimly nods as he grabs onto Camila watching how she uses the grappling hooking for the descent down the shaft.

Standing before the elevator shaft, connected by the maintenance tunnel, a red light flashed behind them. He cursed quietly to himself hearing Camila’s words asking what happened. He sighed softly and responded, “you took out the saka drone and goons that were after us” as he glances down at her in concern. He motions with his head to the dark elevator shaft, “Not sure how long you can stay with me after the saka techies messed with her chrome but my contact had to dip out but gave us a map to this elevator shaft and the lab we need is at the bottom. They also include a pending route out of here.” He continues by saying, “Fucking BTB is probably gonna screw us over since Arasaka knows about us being in here but that plant can be leverage” as he injects her with one more dose of a pain killer saying, “this is the last of the pain killer I can safely give you with it harming you or having to knock you out….” As he sets her down by the wall to the left of the open elevator shaft.

Hearing the strangled cries and gunfire that traveled from behind him back down the hallway brought a frown to his face as he took one last look down the elevator shaft before racing back over to a lucid Camila. At the growing pool of blood that was growing underneath her, he quickly digs into his med-pack and curses out loudly, “Fuck!” quickly beginning to pack the shoulder wound with gauze to focus on the stomach wound. With practiced ease, he began to suture the wound closed and remove any bullets or fragments. Once finished, he would move onto the other wound quietly muttering out calmly, “Just hold on almost done” as he gave her a mild local pain med to help with any discomfort from his med-kit. After finishing closing up the wounds and applying a local disinfectant, he wrapped the wounds in gauze and bandages. He proceed to gentle pick her up as he carried her over to the elevator shaft muttering quietly, “Got to get down to that lab and then out of here quickly” as he called for the elevator.

Having failed at opening the door marked with contamination and the blazing fire of the drone along with the chrome dome having gotten closure, Mercy gritted his teeth in pain from the drone barreling into his chest. The silent buzzing of his agent going off giving a dull green flash of the message with a map, the good doctor would smile faintly diving past the two seemingly distracted oppositions in his way since he could comeback to save Camilla or recover Kara’s body without help and made a mental note to give Cipher a free tune-up. Silently putting his phone in his pocket, he would take off down the hallway following the pre-mapped instructions to the designated elevator, while quietly making his way to the destination intent on grabbing what he could from the secret lab and fleeing the building.

Mercy frowned at the sound of the Arasaka Drone or the sound of the terminator pirate infected by the cyber psychosis, which told him that his hacker friend might no longer be in the system. He mentally shouted, “Bloody fucking hell!” as he searched through the metal hidden labor corridor with its eerie red-light and watched the shadowy figures inch closer to his location. He gripped the side of his head trying to wrack his brain for a solution before his green eyes sparkled at the sight of a metal door behind him labeled “lab”. He quickly dashed over to the door silently praying for the door to be open as he braced himself to shoulder check the door hoping for a miracle or that his friend might still be in the system to unlock or open the door for him.

Mercy scowled at the sight of his aimed shot at the wriggling mass in the bag was off by a hair having impacted into the wall of the compactor above the decomposing hand that ripped through the bag. At the sudden burst of fire from Camilla's sub machine gun that ripped through the decomposing lump of flesh resembling a human hand with strange flowers budding off the remains. His vibrant green eyes would light up at the sight of the flowers that had been in the file given to them from their fixer client, before he growls out in anger at the flower crumbling away into dust muttering, "Fuck!" At the sudden grinding of the gears from behind the compactor walls and the screeching of the metal walls closing in around them, he would curse out again and shout to Camilla, "We need to get out of here Now!" as he tries climbing one of the garbage ramps to get out of the compactor. Mercy would look on in horror at the dust cloud billowing out from the remains of the spores coming from the decaying mulched remains of the bioweapon that seemed to infect any organic material around it. With the ever-increasing remnants of the infectious spore cloud decomposing everything and the strange remnants of a zombified humanoid crawling mass that would arrive in spitting distance would bring a sudden yelp of surprise after being yanked up into the crawl space above the compactor by Camilla. Hearing the clunking of a metal hatch opening would bring his attention to the sudden appearance of their companion Kara and just as he was going to celebrate with a smile on his face at the escape route, he would growl in frustration as he watched helplessly as their companion was ripped to shreds by a barrage of bullets from the Arasaka drone that was sent to investigate after the close encounter in the air ducts. He would clench his fists tightly causing his leather gloves to creak as the bullet hole riddled body of Kara brought back memories of his first patient that cost him the once loving relationship he had with his sister. Softly growling out to himself, he would mutter, "Fucking Arasaka......" as he added another mental check mark to way he hated the mega-Corp and refused any clients employed by the Corp or job offers to work for the corps. He would sigh noticing that they appeared to have another way out of the compactor into the ducts leading further into the building and calls out to Camilla, "Guess it's just us now...." before asking, "Any wounds from the fall or that thing?"

Mercy softly groaned having crash landed in the heap of facilities medical bio-waste and discard medical equipment, which brought a small sigh of relief finding out that neither himself or Camilla were injured from his incompetency at the possibility of being found out by the Araska Head Guard. Standing up in the dank, dark garbage compactor with the flashing red light warning of the impending cycling of the medical compactor would bring a brief panic to the doctor figuring that his previous experience with medical waste disposal usually involved incineration. He would call out to Camilla exclaiming, "We need to get out of here, this medical disposal machine is going to turn on any second" and as he began to look around for an access hatch or way out, he would stop pointing his shotgun on the wriggling black mass, while terrified at the words that played through his mind from the Araska Agent, "Bio-weapon". He would quickly fire a round at the wriggling black mass with his shotgun as he exclaimed out in anger and horror having immediately recognized the thing from his simple deduction after running through an impromptu medical examination a safe distance away, "What the fuck kind of experiments are they doing with bioweapons!" He calls out to Camilla and Kara incase she could hear him from the safety of the airducts, "Be Careful, Araska has BioTechnica working on Bioweapons for them and there could be more of them!"

At seeing Kara’s reactions to his mouthed words and witnessing her finally notice the conversation, he would glance briefly in wonder about the conversation and grit his teeth at the mention of a bio-weapon. He would snarl softly to himself as he chides himself for having pulled out his phone to check the message from his contact near the conversation allowing him to be possible found out. As he followed Kara down the corridor into the ducts with them taking the first corner, he would see a glowing red light out of the corner of his eye from a slopped duct to his left heading down into the depths of the building underbelly. He would lightly grasp Kara’s leg seeing her glancing out another grate and shake her leg before pointing down the secondary maintenance duct that has the red light coming from it. He would hope mentally that the girls followed him as he attempts to move toward the secondary duct. He would yelp in surprise as the duct slopes down toward the red light. he begins to panic as he seeing the broken duct before him and the gap to the next part of the duct being too far for him to grab onto or jump onto. He would muffle a soft scream as he falls through the gap in the broken metal air duct into the empty darkness below illuminated by the dull red glow.